Dramatic music playing behind stark black and white video footage with quotes appearing about Penn State's 2010 football team. Negative quotes, like ESPN analyst Jesse Palmer's "Penn State is the most overrated team in the country" and "They'll be 4-4 in the league and lose to Temple" from The Patriot's own David Jones, followed by a stern-looking Joe Paterno disagreeing. This is the start of the latest Penn State Football Pump it Up video, a slick 2 minute promo found on Youtube.

View full sizeTrue freshman Robert Bolden will start at quarterback for Penn State when the 19th-ranked Nittany Lions open the season against Youngstown State. This photo was taken at the team's annual media day held at Beaver Stadium.
JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News

What follows is a montage of footage featuring Paterno and Nittany Lion stars Evan Royster, Derek Moye, Ollie Ogbu and Stephfon Green. Heck, even the Nittany Lion and kicker Collin Wagner made it. Conspicuously absent are quarterbacks Kevin Newsome and Matt McGloin. Oversight possibly? More interesting is the appearance of true freshman QB Robert Bolden tossing it during an intrasquad scrimmage. Then, two days later, Paterno names Bolden the starter. Coincidence? You decide.

Good-bye Barry

We lost a great friend this past week with the passing of former Patriot-News reporter Barry Fox. Barry was one of the nicest, funniest and smartest people you could ever meet, as well as one of the coolest. Way back in 2006 when I started my blog I needed a name. Numerous brainstorming sessions presented several candidates, but none that I was crazy about. It was then I saw Barry across the room and decided to bounce it off of him. Without missing a beat, Barry came up with the winner-- The Other Joe.